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      Could be better, could be worse - Senior Cyber Security Engineer MITRE Employee Review

      3.0
      Jun 25, 2019
      Senior cyber security engineer
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      Pros

      Excellent opportunities to learn and expand your skillset. Work life balance is unparalleled in the industry. Fantastic opportunities to move around within the company and increase your exposure to skills and fields. Mission of overall corporation is admirable, but can get lost as it filters down to delivered products.

      Cons

      Management does not remember what it was like to be an engineer, and has unreasonable expectations. Interaction with clients depends largely upon their industry, as MITRE bridges most of the major industries. Frequent changes in evaluation metrics lead to confusion on what matters most to management both for delivered product and promotion potential. Promotions seem to be tied to items employees often have little control over.

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      Thank you for sharing your experience at MITRE. As an operator of research and development centers for the federal government, we invest in a wide range of learning and growth opportunities for our talent. Our goal is for each and every one of us to realize our maximum potential, and to achieve our career aspirations utilizing all that MITRE has to offer. For those looking to advance to a position with a higher level of responsibility, we encourage you to schedule a career conversation with your manager, and to take advantage of our career development, training, and educational assistance programs to develop the skills and competencies you need to achieve your goals.

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      5.0
      Mar 17, 2026
      Internship
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business outlook

      Pros

      Good company, very supportive enviroment

      Cons

      None, I enjoyed my internship very much!

      3.0
      Jan 23, 2023
      Employee
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business outlook

      Pros

      Great diversity, quality of life and staff. Been with MITRE over 20 years.

      Cons

      Too many VP,s that are not held accountable. Company recently RIF'd 24 staff from FAA FFRDC, due to dropping gov't funding...yet company has significant number of VPs all sucking off of overhead. No attempt to manage money within the "leadership" ranks. Last year company went through a major business transformation...that failed...yet, VPs held staff accountable for reporting on a subpar system that lasted over 12 months. Could not even get business data to report to gov't for over 2 months, yet, person who was in charge of the business transformation is still at MITRE. If this happened to any other MITRE employee, they would've been gone. Oddly enough the person in charge of the business transformation is the CEOs brother. Amazing how that happens. He'll probably get a bonus because of his substandard performance. MITRE recently invested in opening up an office in Australia. All on company overhead. significant large numbers of VPs travelling out to "visit"...yet company has the audacity to reduce benefits as part of cost cutting measures. Company has now taken on a "for profit" mentality. It's all about delivery... so VPS and GMs can spend, spend, spend. Board of Directors should take a good look at what is happening and make some swift changes from the CEO on down. BOD should also implement an independent IG like entity to investigate what is seeming like waste, fraud and abuse by CEO, GMs and VPs. Time for the Fat Cats to get purged!!!

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